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The Rich Are Not Like Us

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-ON SALE- “Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State”

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Vanished: A Neighborhood Disappears

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Race & Class Barriers: the Fever Dream of Hartford’s ‘Bishops’

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9 Clinton Street vs. Bushnell Memorial Hall: Profit over people

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The Squatters of Peoples Housing Action

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“By Spring We’ll Be In Potter’s Field”

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“Unloved, overworked, underpaid,” but workers are still fighting back.

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From Angola Prison to Hartford: the Life of a Black Panther

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Howard Zinn still shows us history’s fugitive moments of compassion

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The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. 

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May Day !

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The Freedom Journey of Nancy Jackson

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Brookwood Labor College: ”We teach the truth”

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Reckoning with Racist Violence

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Captain John Mason (and his defenders) Should Take a Hint

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On Juneteenth, Challenge Pain and Injustice, Dont Deny it

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Baseball is Still a Civil Rights Battleground

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Mark Twain and the Stain of Torture

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Wise Men and Macheteros

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Rising Tide: Steamboat Workers

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Early Abolitionists Have Lessons for Us Today

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Propaganda: State-Sanctioned Lying

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Fight Violence and Poverty with Mutual Aid

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Two, Three, Many Labor Days

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The Preacher Who Called for Reparations in 1837

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Memorials, Treason, and History

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A Tale of Two Protests

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June 27th: Happy Birthday Lucy Parsons!

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The COVID 19 Pandemic is Not the “Great Equalizer”

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Who’s Afraid of Socialism?

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Storm Center of Labor Unrest

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The Fight of Black Women for Suffrage

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“Take Away Their Clubs and Give Them Shovels”

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Josephine Bennett, Hartford’s City Mother

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“Our Mission is Not Violence But Freedom”

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Nursing home workers’ 2021 historic win

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Memorial Day: Reckoning and Remembrance

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